Its episode 42 and we have a special guest with us for this week’s Broken Record in the form of metal aficionado and Hell Bent for Metal Podcast creator Tom Dare. And this particular episode is catered to his tastes perfectly … or it would be, if we weren’t talking about an album written and released in the past 10 years of 'anything you can do I can better' Metallica copyists Megadeth's career. Hold on to your hadron collider's cause we're talking Super Collider.

Released on June 4, 2013, Super Collider marked the first time the band had released more than one album with the same lineup since 1997's Cryptic Writings, however it is the band's final album to feature drummer Shawn Drover and guitarist Chris Broderick, due to their departures from Megadeth in November 2014. The album debuted at number six on the Billboard 200 and has sold over 86,000 copies in the United States as of December 2015, despite receiving mixed reviews from critics with a Metacritic rating of 41/100

We discuss the lead up to this album, which had, for the most part, placed Megadeth in the best position they’d been in since the early 90s. They ballsed up most of that good will with this album, but where will we rank it on our list of Broken Records?

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